Wick-scraper



c. w. CAHOON.

Lamp Wick Scraper. I No. 47,254. Patgnt ed April 11, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. CAHOON, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

WlCK-SCRAPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,254, dated April 11, 1865 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAS. W. CAHOON, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wick-Scrapers; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing,

- making a part of this specification, in which the figure represents a View of the same.

In using coal-oil lamps I have found much difficulty in trimming the'wicks so that a regular flame would ensue when they were cut off with a scissors; and therefore, after they have been once lighted, instead of cutting off their tops previous to lighting again, I have simply scraped them, which removes the dbris and crustation, leaving the top of the wick corresponding to the top of the tube of the lamp, and I have found so much more regularity of flame resulting therefrom that I have been induced to invent a convenient tool for that purpose, which'is so made that when not wanted for use it may be suspended to the spout of the oil-can, and its misplacement or loss be thus prevented. This tool is simply a flat piece of metal, having a part of it made in the form of a ring to answer for a handle Witnesses:

A. H. WHITNEY, JAMES B. GAnoon. 

